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My pint of Guinness says HF is a new species!

RS said: Are there HF remains of more than one individual that can be compared? Do we yet know if it was a whole population all sharing the same traits, like small heads, long feet, and odd big toes, or could this individual HF have been an abberation amongst his own populace? I am pretty sure that ...

John, shouldn't that be "fecesious"?

Hey all, thanks for all the great info. John, I never really thought about the oracle bones as a form of extispicy but now that you bring it up I see that it is. Got me to thinking about a common form of extispicy still in use...any of you ever wish on a wishbone?

Hey all, have you ever known a word exists but you don't remember what it was or have any clue how to find out? I have, and for some time I have been fretting over the word used to describe the practice of divination from animal (or sometimes human) entrails. Well, I just found the word and so now I...

Hi Beagle, I think Hawks might be right about habilis. The family tree is pretty bushy and tangled (not to mention thorny from the many missing pieces we don't even know about) at that point in time. I guess at some point a line has to be drawn between Homo and Australopithecus, even though if you t...

3. Homo habilis: an endangered species?

Yes! I am telling you, orang pendek!



Still stirring the pot folks (see cryptozoology thread)....

Michelle, all of our hearts are with you and your family in this time of sadness and loss. You have our condolences and deepest sympathies.

I hope if it does hits, it does not wipe out either the Spirit or Opportunity rovers still in action on Mars. Those geeks who designed and built those two little gems did a spectacular job. They initially were only going to last 30 days, but are still going years later. That whole mission has been a...

We are now living through one of the great epochs in the history of life on earth. Not since the advent of cyanobacteria 3.8 billion years ago changed the primordial atmosphere to its current composition has a life form existed that has succeeded in significantly altering the earth's atmospheric che...

Best of luck to you Digit. Come back to us all well, ok?

As someone who has done my share of blacksmithing I can attest that steel does not have to be close to its melting point (steel needs to be over 1500 degrees F. to melt) to be soft enough to weaken and deform. I can conceive of a situation where structural steel elements heated by burning jet fuel, ...

Maybe a constricting heavy round hat was worn by all the males for a few centuries and then a new lighter looser type of hat came into style.



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Digit, I live in Virginia outside of Washington DC and have for years combed the stream beds for early American tools and can report that tools, choppers, scrapers, and corestones such as the ones Charlie has until recently been sharing are quite common here. I am talking tools that are crude enough...

Digit, that is indeed a fine hand axe, but it looks to me to be from the later Acheulean era...most likely the product of the later Homo heidelbergensis, not the earlier HE. As fine as it is however, it still is a rather crude tool. For over a million years the handaxe was the swiss army knife of Ho...